20.07.2010
- Triple Bottom Line - With environmental concerns now firmly at the top of the corporate agenda, adopting sustainable production practices is a must for all organizations in the...
19.07.2010
- Dow Chemical said on Friday it would become a global sponsor of the Olympics, hoping it can bring in more than $1 billion of revenue in the next 10 years by supplying material to...
12.07.2010
- Post-Lehman, European private equity has all but ignored the grimier end of life: the widget-makers, chemicals plants and facilities scrubbers that used to be mainstays of the...
06.07.2010
- Shareholders in British oil company BP balked at reports it would seek urgent investment from a wealthy Middle East or Asian country as clean-up costs for its U.S. oil spill topped...
01.07.2010
- Cutting pharmaceutical prices in the way European governments are doing now will severely reduce the number of new drugs making it to market, according to a study of the sector by...
30.06.2010
- EU farm ministers failed to agree on Tuesday to approve six genetically modified (GM) maize varieties for import to the bloc, despite a warning that inaction could lead to a...
28.06.2010
- When the news broke in November 2009 that both Dow and BASF were looking to sell their styrene assets, the race to find buyers was on. Now, seven months later, BASF still owns its...
23.06.2010
- Chemical industry leader BASF agreed to buy additives maker Cognis for €3.1 billion including debt, expanding into chemicals derived from crops and plants. BASF will pay Cognis's...
23.06.2010
- The cost of building oil refineries and petrochemical plants continues to rise, even as the downstream refining business suffers from poor margins, as costs rise along with the...
22.06.2010
- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) may in future decide not only if new drugs should be licensed for use but also whether one medicine is better than another. The idea of giving...
